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Why is my browser trying to pull content from several other Lemmy instances?

I run a pretty locked down Firefox browser and I noticed when browsing lemmy.world that the browser wants to pull stuff from a long list of other instances, which fails because they aren't trusted. Is this normal? I thought an instance would collect the things you are subscribed to and store them locally so that you didn't have to go talk to 20 different servers. Not true?

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Images are hosted on their home servers, only the links and text content are federated.

That includes user and community icons/avatars.
- That explains it. Thanks!
  
  On the bright side your setup should still work for mostly everything if the long list of errors don't bug you too much.
- GDPR is going to be incredibly complex!
  
  Yeah... even me just running a little single user instance is capturing a ton of user generated content from all over the world. Luckily it looks like deletes are federating for the most part, so if someone's home instance does a delete it should propagate eventually.
  
  Meta knows this...
- ~~It's definitely not only static content tho, I block third party scripts with uBO and it shows other instances domains in the blocked list.~~
  
  Edit: I was mistaken, it's just images
  
  Interesting, I dug through my networks requests with ublock off and I don't see any remote scripts. Only requests to media.kbin and lemmy/pictrs locations on various instances. Any idea which pages you're seeing that on?
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I thought media would be pulled direct and text and links on the thread is what is federated

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